PC takes longer to boot up.

[sethm1]

Ok,this is not quite the end of the world, but I am curious.
Yesterday the boot up time was 91 seconds. Now its 211 seconds. I used the BootSpeed script to test the time.

The only thing different from yesterday is that I changed the size of the Virtual Memory from a min of 16 mb & max of 468 mb to min 9216 mb & max of 18K.

I have a 6GB DDR3 PC (with a Asus P6T x58 chipset motherboard and i7 2.93ghz intel with 320 GB hard drive - if this all helps).

So how can I get back to the 91 time to boot up?
I read somewheres that Win 7 has the ability to "learn" the users activity- so I am wondering that as I use the PC I will get back to 91, or close.

thanks.

 

[clifford_cooley]

The only thing different from yesterday is that I changed the size of the Virtual Memory from a min of 16 mb & max of 468 mb to min 9216 mb & max of 18K.

With 6GB memory, you should not need virtual memory at all for a normal home PC. You might should consider letting Windows Manage the Page File Size. After all I only have 2GB with Windows managed Page File.

Why may I ask are you manually setting the Page File size?
Was it something you read somewhere that would increase performance?

 

[Core]

I wouldn't disable it entirely, but I would trim it down to, say, 2 GB or less, maybe 1 GB even. Some use as low as 32-64 MB. Mickeysoft recommends at least ~400 MB so that it can dump the kernel in it if it crashes, but with Win7 it's really down to what you prefer. I had it disabled entirely, and saw a slight performance decrease, even with 8GB of RAM. Maybe SuperFetch uses the swap, dunno for sure.

At any rate you should probably set it at a static value (like 1 GB being the same for min and max) or, if you do memory-exhaustive stuff, like video editing, leave it alone entirely and let the system figure it out. Win7 does a better job of managing it on its own than XP did, anyways.

 

[sethm1]

I was using the old 1.5 times Ram method- wonder if that is more for XP and 32 bit PCs.
Mine is 64 bit - but probably guessed as I have 6GB of DDR3 RAM.

Any ways - did a Defrag and now down to a 83 sec boot up time - so even better.

I'll try the 1 GB for Min & for Max or may be even let the System Manage for me- but then other than boot up time, I will I know which is best?

Thx

 

[sethm1]

I was using the old 1.5 times Ram method- wonder if that is more for XP and 32 bit PCs.
Mine is 64 bit - but probably guessed as I have 6GB of DDR3 RAM.

Any ways - did a Defrag and now down to a 83 sec boot up time - so even better.

I'll try the 1 GB for Min & for Max or may be even let the System Manage for me- but then other than boot up time, I will I know which is best?

Thx

Oh - and what about checking off the box for "No GUI Boot" (via Msconfig/ Boot tab) ?

 

[davehc]

Perhaps the first thing the OP should do is, as Cifford has suggested. Go back to allowing Windows 7 to control the pagefile?? If the speed of bootup then returns to the original, problem solved??

OP??

 

[draceena]

Another thing to check is processes starting in the background. I know you said you only switched your Virtual Memory but maybe a 'stealth update' may have added a startup program that you'd rather not have starting.

 

[sethm1]

thanks guys-
I did another boot time test and its now down to 89 seconds.
this before changing to "System Managed Size."
After a few reboot tests, still getting 89 seconds.

 

[Veedaz]

Hi sethm1

Changing the Page File in XP some calmed improved performance and some said it made no difference, I would let Windows handle it mate its not worth fafing about with